Report to the president by the Indian Peace Commission, and letter of transmittal, 1868 Jan 7-28.

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Report to the president by the Indian Peace Commission, and letter of transmittal, 1868 Jan 7-28.

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Manuscript report, dated January 7, 1868, written in an unidentified hand, with corrections in one or more additional unidentified hands, and signed by members of the Commission: N.G. Taylor, John Brooks Henderson, William T. Sherman, William Selby Harney, John Benjamin Sanborn, Alfred Howe Terry, S.F. Tappan, and Christopher Columbus Augur. A letter transmitting the report to Congress is written in manuscript in an unidentified hand and signed by President Andrew Johnson, January 14, 1868. The report and letter were published in 1868 as Report of the Indian Peace Commissioners and Message From the President of the United States Transmitting Report of the Indian Peace Commissioners (also as House Ex. doc. no. 97, 40th Cong., 2d sess.).

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